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How the Great Britain grid made the case for the importance of demand-side flexibility in grid decarbonization. 🔎 The Great Britain grid has shown great progress in grid decarbonization over the last years. It significantly reduced its reliance on fossil fuels while sourcing 40% of its electricity from wind and solar in 2024. However, the first weeks of October show the massive challenges ahead to further progress on decarbonizing the grid. 🌬️ When Storm Amy hit Europe, GB ran almost entirely on wind generation during the night of October 5th. On the graph, this is seen as the net load (load minus wind and solar) approaching 0. This concluded a period of 30 days during which GB ran on more than 60% renewables, with 24 hours at almost 80%. 😥 Days later, wind generation dropped, and so did the share of renewables that reached below 20%. At the same time, gas generation was multiplied by more than 6, and the grid carbon intensity soared. 🤔 What can we learn from it? 3 lessons below: Interconnections are crucial for grid balancing. Net load fluctuations provoked by renewables present substantial challenges for grid stability. The strong correlation between net load and net imports shows how crucial interconnections were in maintaining it. It enables the grid to export excess renewable power and import when renewables are not generating enough. We need more storage, but also long-duration storage. The grid carbon intensity increased from 60gCO2/kWh to more than 250gCO2/kWh in about 24 hours and remained over 300gCO2/kWh for multiple days. Short-term storage helped reduce this increase, but we need long-duration storage that can discharge up to a week later. This is where demand-side flexibility comes into play! Installing more interconnections and storage is key for grid decarbonization, but it requires time, investments, and resources. In parallel, electrification brings more flexible loads online that can be leveraged. With 72-hour forecasts of renewable generation and prices, these loads can be shifted to different times to consume cleaner and cheaper electricity while helping the grid decarbonize. At Electricity Maps, we provide all real-time and forecasted signals you need to shift flexible electricity consumption in all grids worldwide. Learn more here on how you can reduce costs, cut emissions, and participate in demand-response programs with these forecasts:

Meet the Electricity Maps team 👋 In August, we welcomed Rachael Murray as our Founding Customer Success Manager!🥳 She’s already been diving into some exciting challenges and here is how she describes her first couple of months: I have been diving deep into the world of flexibility optimisation, real-time balancing of electricity grids, and energy trading. It is hard to overstate how fascinating (and complex) this space really is. Every day brings new learnings and challenges, and that is exactly what I love. What excites me most about this role is being close to our customers, understanding how they are using Electricity Maps’ data today, discovering new ways we can add value, and building partnerships that help accelerate the transition to a truly decarbonised grid. I am genuinely grateful to be part of a team that combines deep expertise with real trust and autonomy. It makes every day both challenging and energising 😉 ⚡️

Now available, our new map layers for Renewable Energy Percentage and Electricity Price, plus 15-minute granularity. Visit the website, update your bookmarks, and explore the data to compare regions on the global grid. Ready to get ahead with our enterprise forecast for pricing, carbon intensity, and more signals from the grid? Explore using Electricity Maps for Energy Trading: https://lnkd.in/eYTiNv5Y Get familiar with how Google, Cisco, and LogicMonitor use Electricity Maps for Sustainable IT Monitoring: https://lnkd.in/eNviqjcU

✨ Electricity Maps says: thank you Robin TROESCH! ✨ This week we’re celebrating Robin’s 3 years anniversary with Electricity Maps. As his Team Lead Íngrid Munné Collado puts it: “Robin is the kind of teammate that can explain databases, cloud, and ML lifecycles so clearly that even if you start with zero clue, you’ll walk away actually understanding the topic. And if that wasn’t enough, he brings the same level of mastery to baking French cakes and pastries - making him our go-to colleague for both tech deep-dives and sweet breaks.” On the product side, Robin has been a driving force behind some of our most important foundations: - Model Lifecycle: building our model lifecycle from scratch into one of the strongest parts of our product, allowing us to test models in production-like environments before release. - Feature Store: turning a messy collection of features into a reliable, continuously generated system that accelerates experimentation and powers our forecasts today. Robin, thank you for your clarity, mastery (and sweet treats)! If you want to work with Robin and Ingrid, go check out our open positions: https://lnkd.in/dbKQThk6

Have you heard about our Sustainable IT Monitoring Course? If not, Julien Lavalley has something to share. Julien is not very happy with how this video turned out, and the only way to make him feel better is to sign up to the course. If you want to learn how Data Centers and large IT Infrastructure companies like Google Cloud, LogicMonitor, and Cisco tackle their Sustainable IT, sign up here 👉 https://lnkd.in/d-Bz8vvm

📣 Starting tomorrow, European day-ahead markets adopt 15-minute time units, down from 60-minute intervals. This is the biggest change in the market in decades. At Electricity Maps, we love high granularity on electricity data. Our Historical and Real-time data have been available at 5- and 15-minute intervals since July of this year. Now, we're thrilled to announce that we’ve updated our day-ahead price Forecasts to match the 15-minute resolution across all European zones. This granularity brings forecasts closer to market needs, supporting more accurate trading and flexibility decisions. In the pictures, you can see (1) our Day-Ahead Price Forecasts getting smoother over the past few days, reflecting the new granularity, and (2) our API responses for the Day-Ahead Price endpoint returning 15-minute interval values.

We’re still growing and looking for a Staff Data Engineer to join our Forecast team! 🌱 This team builds the data pipelines and ML infrastructure powering forecasts for carbon intensity, renewable energy production, and electricity prices across 350+ regions worldwide. You’ll work with Forecast Lead Íngrid Munné Collado, Robin TROESCH, and Marcus Garsdal on high-impact, high-scale engineering challenges: processing terabytes of data every day to produce forecasts, and storing billions of rows of data including weather forecasts, grid events, and other signals. If words like Feature Store, Dataflow, BigQuery, or Data Lakes get you excited, this is the role for you. Curious to learn more? Reach out to Tobias Hellfach Hansen, or check out the full role here: https://lnkd.in/dXivqvWb

Meet the Electricity Maps team! ⚡ Dragos Petria joined us in September as our Marketing Lead 🥳. He brings 12 years of experience in digital marketing, most recently spending three years at EV scale-up Monta, where he led their Growth team as Director of Growth. A long-time fan of Electricity Maps, Dragos is passionate about sustainability and believes that transparency in carbon emissions is key to accelerating the decarbonization of electricity use. 🎙️ Fun fact: Before joining, Dragos ran a sustainability podcast and once interviewed our CEO, Olivier Corradi, about Electricity Maps. You could say this was meant to be. Here, Dragos will lead our marketing efforts, making sure our platform and solutions reach the right companies at the right time. Welcome to the team, Dragos! 👋

We're trying something new here at Electricity Maps, and it has something to do with free educational content 🎓 One of the most obvious and impactful use cases of our solutions has to do with IT Infrastructure: Data Centers, Cloud Servers, on-premise and distributed IT Infrastructure. The reason for this is fairly obvious: with digital infrastructure distributed across various locations, workloads can be shifted to the greenest and cheapest times and locations. With the booming demand coming out of AI development, this topic is more relevant than ever. Flexibility starts with Monitoring. We've spent years working with some of the biggest companies in this space, and we've learned the hard lessons building up to Sustainable IT Monitoring, and Flexible Consumption. Today, we would like to start sharing those learnings for free with anyone interested in Sustainable IT Monitoring. It comes in the form of a Pilot Course for people getting started with monitoring their IT Infrastructure emissions. 6 weeks, 6 lessons hosted on our website, delivered to your inbox every week. We'll cover everything you need to know to understand what it is, how to do it, and we'll guide you in taking the first steps, along with our free tools. Completely for free. The first lesson goes out on the 6th of October. If this sounds like something for you, all you have to do is sign up on our website: https://lnkd.in/gPDu3v9g If you know anyone that could benefit from our course, please spread the word. Happy learning!

Our new partners at Resilio I B Corp certified just announced their new endpoint. They're using our data to calculate the footprint of each kWh over 200+ regions. We're proud to be contributing to their Resilio DB and Resilio Tech products, and helping them provide ever higher accuracy and granularity ⚡️